Romanization

L'ewa's romanization is intentionally simple. Most of the IPA letters keep their letters, but the ones that do not match to Latin letters are listed below:

PronunciationSpelling
/j/y
/ɛ/e
/ʃ/x
/ʒ/z
/ʔ/'
/ʙ̥/b

This is designed to make every letter typeable on a standard US keyboard, as well as mapping as many letters as possible on the home row of a QWERTY keyboard.